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Abolition is the unique and exclusive history of Republicans.Did you notice one thing?
All those liberal policies were opposed by Conservatives
Tawwy.
Democrats pushed for continuing slavery long after the civil war. Republicans held their line.
I am always amazed, and disgusted, when I hear this argument and we hear it a lot. It is a commentary on our political, and historic, ignorance. As always it takes a history lesson to correct it. as it is only necessary to advance a cause, or more exactly, a political agenda and not to spread the truth. The problem is that there is just enough truth in this to make some kind of point but it is not the point that any modern republican would care to make.
First, and most basically, this mixes apples and oranges. Liberalism and conservatism are not political parties, they are political philosophies and both the democrats and republicans have been both over our history.
Second, one must understand the definition of liberal and conservative at the most basic level. Conservatives are status quo kind of guys, resistant to change, liberals on the other hand have the tendency to embrace change. These are basic definitions so dont so dont get your shorts in a bind. Both can fall off the edge of the world when taken to extremes.
Lincoln was a member of the new Republican Party. That much is true. From there it gets quite murky. Lincoln himself is not as cut and dried as history displays him but that is another story.
Liberalism and conservatism must always be viewed in the context of time. What is now ultra conservative, perhaps even oppressive, was liberal at the time of the founding. It was change, not something conservatives take lightly.
So Lincoln was a member of the new Republican Party. It was anti slavery. Hardly conservative in nature, nor was Lincoln. For his time, Lincoln was a radical, flame throwing liberal, a change the entire makeup of the nation kind of liberal. Thats what liberals do although not usually as radically as when talking about abolishing slavery.
By definition neither Lincoln nor the Republican Party of 1860 were conservatives. Actually quite the opposite.
The south was defeated and defeat never sits well. In the years of reconstruction they had a lot shoved down their throat that they did not like and that would forever be associated with the Republican party. Change comes slowly, sometimes never and after reconstruction the south labored for decades to return to what it was. The Republican Party was associated their defeat and humiliation and would remain so till the Nixon administration. The democrats ruled the south but they were racist conservative democrats.
Then came the civil rights act pushed through by Johnson and the democratic administration. The south was overwhelmingly democratic, they were known as dixiecrats and the solid south. A lot of irony here, civil rights pushed through by a southern president. Worse yet it could never have passed without the support of the northern liberal Republicans. Names like Rockefeller, Percy, and Dirksen come to mind.
The south had some new people to hate. Then along came Nixon and the southern strategy. He had the novel idea of uniting all those civil rights sore losers behind the Republican party. It worked .wonderfully!
In the years following, the southern racist democrats were gradually replaced, by attrition and party change into the southern racist Republicans, democrats in general being blamed for civil rights. This has become the base for the modern Republican party . Sad commentary that those who were responsible for the passage became a symbol for those who opposed it.
And the Northern Liberal Republicans? Gone the way of the do do bird. By the time Clinton came to power they were extinct, perhaps Bob Dole being just a last dismal representative of what once was.
Another irony? People like Allen West expounding on the Republican service to the black man. With friends like those
This is a bare outline, somewhat lacking in detail but those details are there for anyone who has the desire, and the honesty, to look into it.
Thank God for my public school education.
Failed Liberal Policy:
Today's jobs report is a broken record, with the unemployment rate stuck at 8.2 percent. The Department of Labor reports that only 80,000 jobs were added in Juneconsistent with other data revealing the economy has downshifted from slow to slower. This picture is starkly different from the economy President Obama promised of a strong recovery and millions of "saved or created" jobs a few years ago.
In 2009, the President promised that his "recovery plan" composed almost entirely of government spending was the only way to stave off rising unemployment. The White House even drafted a chart showing projected unemployment with the economic stimulus plan and without itto scare lawmakers into voting for it. According to their projections, by now, unemployment should be at 5.5 percent. Instead, of course, it's 8.2 percentand has been above 8 percent for 41 straight months.
This jobs drought is the result of counterproductive policies, many of which could be reversed immediately. But in the meantime, employers aren't hiring because they are suffering from prolonged uncertainty, as economists readily admit.
Morning Bell: Jobs, Unemployment Stuck
Hey give Papa Obama a break
He says he is hard at work, as he says:
"Most Folks Understand How Hard I Work"
Can you name a single case where Obama violated the Constitution?
Hey give Papa Obama a break
He says he is hard at work, as he says:
"Most Folks Understand How Hard I Work"
Can you name a single case where Obama violated the Constitution?
Actually, no. I cannot name a "single case where Obama violated the Constitution". I wish there were a single case. Unfortunately, there are literally dozens and dozens and dozens of cases. He violates the Constitution on almost a daily basis. Here's is latest violation - from just last week!
Obama’s Gutting of Welfare Reform Is Illegal
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a General Counsel and legal staff to ensure that the agency’s actions are lawful. Did they take the day off last Thursday?
We have to question whether the department lawyers were consulted at all about the “Information Memorandum” issued by HHS last Thursday that invites states to come up with creative excuses (aka “demonstration projects”to suspend the work requirements in the welfare reform law.
Given the clear, unambiguous, and binding legal prohibition for that type of waiver, if they were consulted, the lawyers involved were embarrassingly careless in approving language that is in direct violation of federal law. Because there is no legal basis for permitting the waivers at issue, HHS needs to follow the law and withdraw the illegal Memorandum.
Obama's Gutting of Welfare Reform Is Illegal
The problem with Obama is a simple one: Obama cannot deliver jobs. He is wired to think somebody else is responsible for all his problems, somebody else must pay for his pet rock projects, and his demands delivered through what is beginning to be ridiculous grabs at Congressional power through presidential edicts without consulting Congress. He's a maniac.Failed Liberal Policy:
Today's jobs report is a broken record, with the unemployment rate stuck at 8.2 percent. The Department of Labor reports that only 80,000 jobs were added in June—consistent with other data revealing the economy has downshifted from slow to slower. This picture is starkly different from the economy President Obama promised of a strong recovery and millions of "saved or created" jobs a few years ago.
In 2009, the President promised that his "recovery plan" composed almost entirely of government spending was the only way to stave off rising unemployment. The White House even drafted a chart showing projected unemployment with the economic stimulus plan and without it—to scare lawmakers into voting for it. According to their projections, by now, unemployment should be at 5.5 percent. Instead, of course, it's 8.2 percent—and has been above 8 percent for 41 straight months.
This jobs drought is the result of counterproductive policies, many of which could be reversed immediately. But in the meantime, employers aren't hiring because they are suffering from prolonged uncertainty, as economists readily admit.
Morning Bell: Jobs, Unemployment Stuck
Sure easy...
Trying to force states into spending money for Papa Obama care
and Medicaid
The Constitution gives Congress the right to make laws. If the states don't like it, they can sue. It is all part of checks and balances.
Rightwingnuts challenged ....they lost
Sure easy...
Trying to force states into spending money for Papa Obama care
and Medicaid
The Constitution gives Congress the right to make laws. If the states don't like it, they can sue. It is all part of checks and balances.
Rightwingnuts challenged ....they lost
States have a constitution that requires them to balance their budget. An unfunded mandate from the Federal government can and will be ignored. Case in point, a number of states will not implement Obamacare.
Sure easy...
Trying to force states into spending money for Papa Obama care
and Medicaid
The Constitution gives Congress the right to make laws. If the states don't like it, they can sue. It is all part of checks and balances.
Rightwingnuts challenged ....they lost
States have a constitution that requires them to balance their budget. An unfunded mandate from the Federal government can and will be ignored. Case in point, a number of states will not implement Obamacare.
The Constitution gives Congress the right to make laws. If the states don't like it, they can sue. It is all part of checks and balances.
Rightwingnuts challenged ....they lost
States have a constitution that requires them to balance their budget. An unfunded mandate from the Federal government can and will be ignored. Case in point, a number of states will not implement Obamacare.
Exactly
an element of Papa ObamaCare the SCOTUS found unconstitutional
in the Feds attempts to implement it
Combine that with the SCOTUS finding Papa ObamaCare's attempts to use
the Commerce Clause- unconstitutional
Why does the Left pass laws with so many unconstitutional parts to it?
No doubt a lack of respect for the rule of constitutional law
Well the left figures throw enough "sh*t at the wall" , some will stick
Which is why we are left with Papa ObamaCare being nothing
more than a big regressive tax
The Constitution gives Congress the right to make laws. If the states don't like it, they can sue. It is all part of checks and balances.
Rightwingnuts challenged ....they lost
States have a constitution that requires them to balance their budget. An unfunded mandate from the Federal government can and will be ignored. Case in point, a number of states will not implement Obamacare.
Exactly
an element of Papa ObamaCare the SCOTUS found unconstitutional
in the Feds attempts to implement it
Combine that with the SCOTUS finding Papa ObamaCare's attempts to use
the Commerce Clause- unconstitutional
Why does the Left pass laws with so many unconstitutional parts to it?
No doubt a lack of respect for the rule of constitutional law
Well the left figures throw enough "sh*t at the wall" , some will stick
Which is why we are left with Papa ObamaCare being nothing
more than a big regressive tax
States have a constitution that requires them to balance their budget. An unfunded mandate from the Federal government can and will be ignored. Case in point, a number of states will not implement Obamacare.
Exactly
an element of Papa ObamaCare the SCOTUS found unconstitutional
in the Feds attempts to implement it
Combine that with the SCOTUS finding Papa ObamaCare's attempts to use
the Commerce Clause- unconstitutional
Why does the Left pass laws with so many unconstitutional parts to it?
No doubt a lack of respect for the rule of constitutional law
Well the left figures throw enough "sh*t at the wall" , some will stick
Which is why we are left with Papa ObamaCare being nothing
more than a big regressive tax
Now that Obamacare has been declared constitutional, it is the law of the land
Republicans can't repeal it so if they don't like it, they are welcome to work to improve it
Exactly
an element of Papa ObamaCare the SCOTUS found unconstitutional
in the Feds attempts to implement it
Combine that with the SCOTUS finding Papa ObamaCare's attempts to use
the Commerce Clause- unconstitutional
Why does the Left pass laws with so many unconstitutional parts to it?
No doubt a lack of respect for the rule of constitutional law
Well the left figures throw enough "sh*t at the wall" , some will stick
Which is why we are left with Papa ObamaCare being nothing
more than a big regressive tax
Now that Obamacare has been declared constitutional, it is the law of the land
Republicans can't repeal it so if they don't like it, they are welcome to work to improve it
Pffff! Since when does the left abide by "the law of the land"?!?!?
Healthcare is NOT a right in the US Constitution, yet the left claims it is
The right to bear arms is a right in the US Constitution, yet the left claims it is not
Only the idiot liberal.....
